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TIAA (www.tiaa.org) is a unique financial partner. With an award-winning track record for consistent performance, TIAA is the leading provider of financial services in the academic, research, medical, cultural and government fields. TIAA has $938 billion in assets under management (as of 3/31/2017) and offers a wide range of financial solutions, including investing, banking, advice and guidance, and retirement services.

​Academic Search, Inc. is an executive search firm dedicated to serving higher education institutions and related organizations and is the only search firm in the nation with a formal relationship to a premier leadership development program. As the subsidiary of the American Academic Leadership Institute (AALI), Academic Search provides substantial financial support to a number of signature CIC leadership programs, including the Executive Leadership Academy and Senior Leadership Academy through grants by AALI. 

​Ellucian provides innovative software and services to help education institutions thrive in an open and dynamic world. The company delivers a broad portfolio of technology solutions, developed in collaboration with a global education community, and provides strategic guidance to help education institutions of all kinds navigate change, achieve greater transparency, and drive efficiencies. More than 2,400 institutions in 40 countries around the world look to Ellucian for the ideas and insights that will move education forward, helping people everywhere discover their futures through learning.

National Management Resources Corporation provides services exclusively to private institutions of higher learning. Services include plant maintenance and repair, custodial, landscape maintenance, and events planning and setups. National also offers campus security services through its subsidiary company Synergy Campus Security, LLC. National tailors its services to meet the needs and goals of the clients the company serves. With National colleges can rest assured that their facilities look their best for recruitment, retention, and fundraising. National helps make colleges and universities look picture perfect all the time.

​Sodexo, a leader in quality of life services, is committed to enhancing the learning environment on campus.  By focusing on quality of life services, the company  reinforces the overall experience of campus life, which in turn improves its partners’ effectiveness and performance. From designing meals around lifestyle needs to designing buildings for growing endowments, its commitment to providing students and staff a nurturing learning environment spans the entire campus experience. 

Johnson, Grossnickle and Associates has taken an authentic and thoughtful approach to all aspects of strategic and philanthropic consulting for its clients since 1994. JGA focuses on the concepts of mission, strategy, and accountability that underlie the philanthropic relationship and help the firm’s clients achieve high standards. JGA's team of experienced senior consultants offer client-focused, highly customized solutions to private colleges, independent schools, and large cultural organizations in the Central United States. The full-service firm assists with capital campaigns, development audits, feasibility studies, and general fundraising counsel. For more information, visit www.jgacounsel.com.

Registry for College and University Presidents has been a premier provider of interim leadership in higher education since 1992. In 2002, the Registry expanded its services with the Registry for Senior Administrators, which places interims at the vice president and dean levels. The Registry has contracts with more than 700 former college and university presidents and senior administrators in all 50 states, all of whom have been selected for membership based on nominations and pre-screening evaluations. Registry interims will typically serve anywhere from three months to three years, and there is a trend toward more extended periods of service. The Registry interim function increases the probability of success for the succeeding permanent senior administrator at public and private colleges and universities as well as community colleges.

Aramark is a single source provider to over 600 higher education institutions for the development of dining and facility management solutions. Aramark offers a complete and innovative array of dining services that include master planning, culinary development and venue design, catering, concessions, and residential, quick-serve, and express dining concepts. The company's knowledge and expertise extend to a broad range of facilities services including maintenance, custodial, grounds, energy and engineering solutions, capital project management, and building commissioning.

Capture Higher Ed is the world’s best at using data and technology to attract, engage, and recruit mission-fit students. Capture leverages demographic, socio-economic, and behavioral data to deliver valuable insights for more effective and progressive student recruitment. Using an algorithmic approach, Capture maximizes meaningful engagement with prospective students at the most influential times in their decision-making journey, providing a better ROI to its partner institutions. Capture’s proprietary technology is built specifically for enrollment professionals, with real-time analytics and data visualization tools to easily monitor progress and measure the success of enrollment goals at any time. Headquartered in Louisville, KY, Capture Higher Ed has served nearly 75 higher education institutions across the country, and has been recognized by Fortune as one of the greatest places to work and by Inc. 5000 as a fastest-growing U.S. company.

Credo has partnered with independent college and university presidents, cabinets, and board members around the country for more than 20 years, using their team of interdisciplinary experts to help colleges' teams go farther faster and more efficiently. Informed by a holistic approach to institutional health, they deliver action and results in strategic planning, campus planning, student success, marketing, enrollment, architecture, and research. Credo's expertise in this sector of the higher education marketplace allows them to understand the unique challenges independent institutions face. The firm knows that with smart, data-driven strategies designed to lift up institutions' missions and propel their visions, independent higher education can grow and thrive through any challenge.

EFL Associates is a retained executive search firm established in 1978 with offices in Kansas City, Missouri; Denver, Colorado; and Houston, Texas. The firm offers customized search services to small and large institutions, both public and private, and has assisted more than 200 colleges and universities across the country. The firm's consultants meet with institutional leadership to develop the list of services that would be most helpful to the institution for a particular search and then focus its efforts on fulfilling those tasks. EFL Associates' distinctive feature is its commitment to meeting the specific needs of its clients. The consultant during the discovery phase of the project is the person who will guide the search through to successful appointment. EFL's commitment to diversity is well above the industry average with diversity placements in 2015 exceeding 60 percent. The firm's goal is to provide an efficient and effective process for its client institutions.

Gonser Gerber LLP understands that each institution and its needs are unique. That is why the firm takes time to get to know the president and other institutional leaders and seeks to understand each institution’s particular opportunities and challenges. Gonser Gerber refers to this customized approach as forming "individually crafted relationships." The client will call it distinctive, effective, and highly welcomed. Gonser Gerber, founded in 1950, is the nation's first advancement consulting firm serving higher education institutions and a broad range of other organizations and agencies. The firm’s innovative services have provided more than 750 clients with creative, customized, results-oriented advancement counsel and helped clients raise billions of dollars. Services offered to clients include: comprehensive advancement counsel; campaign counsel; campaign readiness studies; advancement audits; marketing and communications counsel; strategic planning facilitation; executive searches through Gonser Gerber Search; and professional development for boards, staff, and volunteers through Gonser Gerber Institute programs.

Hardwick Day, a division of EAB, is the leading source for financial aid optimization, enrollment strategy and net price calculators. The firm fine-tunes financial aid policies, builds award models, and offers full-cycle support to help colleges exceed revenue, recruitment and enrollment goals.

Hastings+Chivetta Architects, Inc. practices the firm’s mission statement every day, “Building clients, not just projects.” Over 80% of their projects are on a repeat or referral basis for higher education clients throughout the nation. For a half-century, the dedicated staff has participated in the master planning, design, and construction of every campus project type from science to athletics. From this experience they have gained a deep understanding of what campus leaders require to deliver projects that instill pride in past and future graduates. Hastings+Chivetta is committed to planning and designing facilities that meet each client’s unique requirements. The firm is recognized as stewards of sustainable design which supports their client’s mission. Hastings+Chivetta are proud to have worked with over 50 CIC institutions in their 55 year history. For more information, please visit www.hastingschivetta.com

Metz Culinary Management has been an innovative leader in the hospitality industry since 1994. The company's experience with thousands of guests per week enables Metz to bring restaurant-quality cuisine and service to its foodservice operations in the educational setting. The company's menus offer fresh, nutritious, enticing options tailored to students, staff, and guests. Metz sources the best local foods and ingredients each season and offers an abundance of vegetarian, vegan, heart-healthy, and lower fat choices because of the company's commitment to nutrition. Cage-free eggs, fair-trade coffee, and antibiotic-free chicken are just the beginning of the company's sustainability efforts.

Orbis Education solves health care workforce shortages by creating collaborative partnerships between educators and employers. Orbis partnerships combine the university's academic expertise, the health care provider's clinical expertise, and the company's own substantial program management expertise to drive transformative enrollment growth without sacrificing academic quality. Orbis specializes in managing degree programs for high-demand health care fields, such as nursing and occupational therapy, which also have a significant clinical education component. The company helps academic partners remove the typical barriers to enrollment growth, from lack of capital to constrained faculty resources to the challenge of securing and managing clinical placements. The result is a health care program that attracts quality students, creates more high-quality practitioners to meet employer demand, and provides a sustainable incremental revenue stream for the institution.

The Learning House, Inc. helps people improve their lives through education. The academic program manager offers a full suite of education services, including: Online Program Management (OPM), Corporate Solutions, The Software Guild, Learning House International, and Advancement Courses. Built on a foundation of data-driven decision making, thorough market research, and robust technology services, Learning House is focused on delivering high-quality, relevant, timely education services to meet the needs of a dynamic, global market. Through its partnerships, Learning House helps universities acquire more students, produce more graduates, and deliver better outcomes and helps companies attract, develop, and retain a happier, more skilled workforce.

Art & Science Group offers market-informed strategy to higher education, independent schools and the non-profit sector. Since its founding in 1994, the firm has provided its clients with strategic market research and recommendations, built on a foundation of both creative thinking and empirical rigor—art and science. The Group works in a variety of arenas, leveraging a foundation of market data, analysis, and inventive ideas, to guide and advance institutions’ strategic interests and critical investments. The firm is dedicated to helping each institution position itself in ways that positively affect the decisions of its key constituents—whether to apply, matriculate, give, and so on—in an institution’s favor. The Group provides a customized and collaborative approach for each client, with recommendations rooted in sophisticated research and thorough analysis. The firm’s experienced consultants and researchers produce the highest quality findings and recommendations on the market.

Asset Strategy Consultants (ASC) has been providing consulting services for endowments, foundations, and retirement plans (401(k) and 403(b) plans) for 25 years. ASC is a private, independent consulting firm that has no products of its own and is not tied to any bank, brokerage firm, or insurance company. With the new Department of Labor (DOL) regulations, plan sponsors are given more responsibility for the retirement of their employees. Hiring a registered investment advisor to act as a co-fiduciary with the college or university is the best way of protecting employees' retirement while being compliant with the DOL and ERISA laws.

Casagrande Consulting is a boutique firm focused on providing insight into Institutional, Board, Leadership, and Compensation Effectiveness to Institutions of Higher Education. The firm has provided insight to more than 50 institutions since its launch in 2009.

​Creative Communication Associates (CCA) is a full-service marketing communications and branding agency, specializing exclusively in higher education. From the Ivy League to large public universities to small private colleges and specialty schools, CCA’s over 30 years of strategic and creative expertise has built some of the best brands in higher education today.

Derck & Edson’s commitment to higher education is demonstrated through their numerous planning, enhancement, and athletics projects on campuses throughout the United States. The firm’s expertise is demonstrated by the wow-factor they deliver that leaves lasting, positive impressions on these same campuses. Since 1940, the company has been transforming campuses through planning, design, and implementation services that meet the needs of colleges and universities, including: feasibility studies, master planning, athletic facilities design, implementation services, engineering, GIS services, architectural services, site design, circulation solutions, construction observation, inventory and analysis, and identity enhancement.

Educational & Institutional Insurance Administrators (EIIA) is a non-profit consortium offering a sophisticated range of insurance and risk management services to higher education institutions across the country and internationally. The consortium’s programs include property and casualty, auto, educators legal liability, workers’ compensation, student and athlete health insurance, employee benefits and health plans.  EIIA offers a library of educational videos, policy drafts, whitepapers and legal briefs free to its members.  The consortium is proud of its long-standing track record for educating institutions in managing risk and providing unique insurance programs and services tailored to their needs.

Hunter Global Education, LLC was established to bridge educational and relational gaps between American and Asian educational institutions and businesses. With today's globalization, the need for honest, affordable, and reliable educational advice and assistance is growing. Institutions that once served local and regional needs are now being challenged to enter the global market, and trusted relationships are the highway on which international programs run. Students who once attended local and regional colleges and universities are venturing far from home to secure their education. Good decisions in all these areas require a sound knowledge of other cultures and countries. Hunter seeks to fill this knowledge and relationship void with its many programs and services.

​Ideas for Action is an executive coaching and management consulting firm. The firm helps colleges and universities develop superior leadership, address difficult issues, find creative solutions, and plan and execute extraordinary results. Since 1995, IFA has served higher education and nonprofit organizations by strengthening executive leadership performance, guiding thoughtful and disciplined strategic planning and dialogue, enhancing board and governance capacity and agility, and providing insight, information, and actionable research. IFA’s partners are senior leaders in higher education and nonprofit management who act as trusted advisors and thought partners, building customized approaches and solutions to client needs.

​Partners Development has built a solid reputation as one of the premier companies specializing in comprehensive facilities development for private, independent colleges and universities. Partners is comprised of professionals providing facilities planning, financing, and development for higher education clients with a broad range of needs.

Pioneer College Caterers is a food service management company, serving faith-based campuses exclusively since 1973. Pioneer has 46 partners located in 20 states. Pioneer is a committed partner through recruiting, retention, student life, spiritual mission, catered events, and financial responsibility. The company welcomes the consideration and the privilege of making the acquaintance of Institute participants. Please contact Pioneer for more information.

Stamats allies with colleges and universities on a mission. The firm helps institutional leaders dream, strategize, articulate, and implement, from strategic planning through market research and creative communications across all channels. 

The Collaborative represents both who the company is and the way it functions. As a group of architects, landscape architects, interior designers, planners and graphic designers, the firm supports an interactive design process. The Collaborative shares the conviction that problem solving and design excellence are the products of many people, in different disciplines, working together with the client. Founded in 1973, The Collaborative’s experience includes 75+ campuses and more than 550 major higher education projects.  With this benchmarking knowledge, the firm can provide guidance for translating strategic goals into physical parameters. The Collaborative is a 47 person multi-disciplined practice committed to high quality design and client services.

​​​mStoner, Inc. helps clients to tell their authentic stories by clarifying their unique brand value proposition, creating a content strategy to communicate the brand effectively, and implementing compelling and dynamic communications across the web, mobile, social media, print, and other channels. The company focuses on research, data, and results. Since 2001, mStoner has worked with more than 300 colleges, universities, and professional schools in the U.S. and abroad. mStoner published Social Works: How #HigherEd Uses #SocialMedia to Raise Money, Build Awareness, Recruit Students, and Get Results in 2013 — the first and only guide to successful social media campaigns in higher education. The company produces HigherEdLive.com as a free resource for professionals in education. 

​AGB Institutional Strategies is one of a number of consulting services offered by the Association of Governing Boards, and provides institutions of higher education with operational and mission-driven strategies that help achieve renewed institutional strength. Visit the website for more information about their process, consultants, and case studies.

BCWH provides full-service architecture, campus planning, interior design, and landscape architecture services in a practice committed to creating enriching and inspiring places with and for its clients. The firm has over 30 years of service to educational institutions with a focus on independent colleges and universities. Its vision is to collaborate closely with clients to enhance the campus environment as a holistic place for learning. The Van Yahres Studio of BCWH offers national expertise specializing in campus planning and has completed more than 700 campus projects. The company believes that the rational organization of buildings and outdoor spaces is an integral part of the learning environment. BCWH with the Van Yahres Studio offers a comprehensive experience in campus planning and design.

Celli-Flynn Brennan Architects & Planners is a full-service architecture and planning firm located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, that specializes in transforming college and university campuses. Since its founding in 1949, Celli-Flynn Brennan's work at dozens of higher education institutions has led to national recognition in the field, and the firm's involvement with CIC over the past 20 years has helped it gain an understanding of the issues facing presidential leaders on campus and beyond. The firm aims to design buildings that support institutional mission, complement the cultural landscape, and promote student recruitment and retention. The company's portfolio includes every type of building that one would find on a college campus.

Hyatt - Fennell, Executive Search brings over 60 years of combined highly successful expertise to its clients, and a reputation for achieving results on the national and international level. www.HYATT-FENNELL.com is well-known and respected for placing top executives with small, private colleges and universities. Through a partnership with its clients Hyatt - Fennell enhances and streamlines the search process and provides a commitment to find the perfect person for each position.

R. H. Perry & Associates (RHPA) is one of the most experienced, and most successful higher education executive search firms in the country. The company’s primary focus is to assist institutions of higher education in the identification and selection of their leadership. Headquartered in Washington, D.C., the firm’s consultants maintain offices in Arizona, California, Florida, Illinois, Maryland, Missouri, North Carolina, New York, Rhode Island, and Virginia. RHPA has completed more than 1,000 searches in its 43-year history. The firm’s higher education practice consists of senior-level executives with a well-balanced mix of college and university presidential experience and executive search expertise. RHPA conducts its search practice with two consultant teams supported by communications and due diligence specialists.

Steptoe & Johnson PLLC is a national law firm of more than 300 lawyers with offices in Colorado, Kentucky, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, and West Virginia. The firm's higher education team consists of attorneys from multiple disciplines who cater to the diverse legal service needs of independent colleges throughout the United States, including advice on a broad array of compliance issues and tax-exempt financing. The firm's attorneys have held positions in higher education as in-house counsel, accountants, development officers, trustees, and faculty members, and they have extensive experience handling issues confronting multiple colleges. In short, the firm understands higher education and constantly aspires to provide cost-effective, pragmatic solutions based on that understanding.

Stevens Strategy is a full-service consulting firm specializing in managing the process of strategic change in colleges, universities and schools. The firm offers professional services to the leaders of these institutions in the following areas: Institutional Vision and Strategy, Strategic Organizational Leadership, Market and Program Analytics, Finance and Data Analytics, and Institution-wide Policy Manual Development. Stevens Strategy’s consultants have extensive experience serving colleges, universities, and schools—including positions as present and former trustees, presidents, faculty, vice presidents, and other senior staff—each with a particular area of expertise in leadership and management. The firm’s clients include independent and public institutions from the largest universities to the smallest colleges and schools in America and throughout the world.

The Dysart Group is a higher education consulting firm specializing in admissions, financial aid, and retention. The firm has worked with more than 175 colleges and universities to achieve extraordinary outcomes.